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Lobster Liberation Times 30!
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As in, let me celebrate my birth by paying a cook to throw a fully conscious, feeling being into a pot of boiling water to scald to death for my dinner. Ugh.
No wonder my heart skips a beat whenever I read about a caring person who liberates a lobster from a filthy lobster tank so that the animal can be returned to the sea. So my heart nearly burst out of my rib cage when I read that a Slovenian tourist and his daughter bought 30 lobsters for 1,300 euros (more than US$1,860) from a Croatian hotel-restaurant called Hotel Niko in order to free them.
Thirty lobsters have been spared excruciatingly painful deaths and have been returned to the ocean.
Tonight, I'll be celebrating their release with some "Mock Lobster."
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lobster are boiled alive.
Posted by: pat ciochetto | August 25, 2009 10:37 AM
Dont you miss the garlic,butter, and lemon with that bug? Mmmmmmmhhmmm!!
But watching die can make you into a veg. Im torn between eating one of my favorite meals and protecting it to live its 50 year life. Congrats on your change. Hope to follow your footsteps soon!
Posted by: henry m. | August 25, 2009 12:05 PM
Please isgn my petition to stop selling live lobsters at Meijer Superstore! Thanks!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/7/stop-selling-live-lobsters-at-meijer
Posted by: Jennifer | August 25, 2009 01:36 PM
The restaurant probably had an easy time buying an equal number lobsters and likely made a profit out of it (as the price they charged the tourist probably was much higher than the restaurant's wholesale price for procuring lobsters.) Unless fewer people eat lobster at that restaurant in the future, it will end up being a zero sum situation.
Posted by: Abby | August 25, 2009 02:19 PM
That is amazing! (Not the Boiling Alive bit, but the saving them bit) Poor things.
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| August 25, 2009 03:45 PM
That's pretty cool. If I had the money, I'd do the same. Although I stopped eating seafood years ago (shortly after I gave up meat) it's only recently that I've become equally as sensitive to lobsters, etc. suffering as any other animal.
Posted by: Bluebell | August 25, 2009 04:55 PM
Abby, the point is not that the restaurant turned around and bought more lobsters (which it most likely didn't since fish markets are open early morning). The point is that 30 lives were given a second chance and that is wonderful. If we were all pessimistic about our small steps toward a more compassionate lifestyle we would be no where.
Posted by: Shelly | August 25, 2009 07:47 PM
As terrestrial beings humans have no right to infiltrate the seas and kill aquatic creatures. We are destroying, ecosystems and biodiversity.
Posted by: Brien Comerford | August 25, 2009 07:47 PM
Hi, I'm afraid we have a typo.
"...paying a cook to throw fully conscious, feeling being into a pot of boiling water..."
It should be "a fully conscious, feeling being".
I'm glad someone had the heart and money to do that. Most people would just call him gay.
Posted by: Jacob | August 25, 2009 08:04 PM
What probably happened is that the tourist paid much money for the lobsters, released them into the ocean, and they were caught again right away and put in another tank.
The "nice" person just helped the lobster industry profit twice on 30 lobsters.
Posted by: Redbell | August 25, 2009 08:58 PM
When it comes to animals too many people live in the Stoneage. It´s of course very cruel to boil animals alive.
The lobsters in this case got a second chance.
Gunnel, Sweden
Posted by: Gunnel Söderback | August 26, 2009 07:30 AM
Such an act of kindness and beauty brings tears to my eyes, it is uplifting, and inspiring.
Focusing on the fact that, yes, the restaurant will buy more lobsters is unfortunate. The fact that we are reading about it, as I am sure others have and will, means that this kind act is being acknowledged and awareness is being raised. Get it?
Posted by: Candice | August 26, 2009 02:54 PM
What a kool thing to do, to liberate all of them.
He has done wonderful thing and set a wonderful compassionate example to his daughter.
God bless him.
Posted by: ava | August 26, 2009 03:51 PM
Restaurant owner said that guests at the restaurant with lobsters on their plates were pretty uncomfortable watching kitchen crew as they took lobsters, one by one, and released them into the sea.
This Slovenian man did the same thing last year in Malta.
Also, this year a Russian tourist entered the same restaurant, bought a lobster and returned it to the sea. Next day, he came with his little son, bought another lobster and released it. And he returned every evening with his son for next ten days and repeated this "free a lobster" action.
The point here is; people are becoming aware of this cruelty, and that's what counts!
Posted by: Nena | August 26, 2009 09:35 PM